Chapter 17
It was hard to remain quiet on the drive back to the hotel, but Audrey did so for Michael’s sake. There was something taut and cold about him right then, something that made her feel as if he was doing everything he could to put a safe distance between them. She hadn’t interrupted back at the house because this was his field of expertise, not hers; what she’d seen in Kayla Vargas’ room had been both tragic and deeply disturbing. While she’d dealt with several case studies during the time she was getting her degree that, on the surface, were almost as unsettling, this was different. Although she couldn’t say precisely how she was able to sense such a thing, she could tell that Kayla’s behavior was not something caused by the troubles inside her own mind, but some terrible outsid
